For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
Ver. 20. If our keart condemn us] Conscience is God's spy and man's overseer, Domesticus index, iudex, carnifex; God's deputy judge, holding court in the whole soul, bearing witness of all a man's doings and desires, and accordingly excusing or accusing, absolving or condemning, comforting or tormenting. Quid tibi prodest non habere conscium, habenti conscientiam? saith one; and another, Turpe quid acturus, te sine teste time. Inprimis reverere te ipsum. Look to conscience.
" Conscia mens ut cuique sua est, ita concipit intra,
Pectora pro facto spemque metumque suo. " (Ovid.)